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Re: Set 4229 - Extra Bricks pack
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:22:17 GMT
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Paul Baulch wrote in message ...
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> <snip>
> With the way that people have been talking about their collections, and a
> quick search on LUGNET newsgroups for "4229", I began to speculate that it
> wasn't actually available in the U.S. Is this true?
> The search didn't seem to uncover any posts that actually said so (Pause
> didn't either), although a few UK posts _did_ say that 4229 was poor value
> for money compared to a semi-mythical brick pack apparently numbered
> "1857"[1]..... is 4229, then, available in the U.S. but not good enough
> value for parting out? It seems like a fantastic parting-out brick pack to
> me[2][3].
I have seen the basic boxes at TRU, although I'm not sure if I have seen
this particular one. I do recall noticing a largish box of bricks and
wondering why somebody would pay that price* for it when they could get more
bricks in the blue tub.
*Don't remember the actual price, only that it wasn't very cost effective.
Brian (bbq) Sauls
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| Brian Sauls wrote in message ... (...) more (...) Well, I'm in Australia, and as you might be aware, buying _any_ Lego isn't really cost-effective down here :-( But seriously, 4229 seems to be priced slightly differently in this country. I'm pretty (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I was building various things with my (once again) growing Lego collection, and I noticed something that many other builders had complained about - the relative lack of basic 2xN and 1xN bricks in a collection consisting mainly of System and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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